Garment.



PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904. 0. KENYON, JR. GARMENT APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 9, 1904.

PATENT OEricE.

GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,064, dated August 9, 1904.

Application filed November 12,1903. Serial No. 180,832. No model.)

I!) a, whom it inn/y concern.

Be it known that I, CLARENCE KENYON, J12, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garments.

It has for its object to provide means to enable the wearer of a garment to obtain access to the inside of the garment without opening or unbuttoning the latter, to place such means preferably in close proximity to the opening of a pocket, so that the wearer can obtain access at the same point either to the pocket or to the inside of the garment, also preferably to arrange such means and the pocket so as not to interfere with the proper support of the pocket and so as to guard such parts from opening under strain, and preferably, also, to conceal the means of obtaining access to the inside of the garment.

It consists in the novel devices and combinations herein shown and described.

My invention is particularly applicable to and useful in mens overcoats to enable the wearer to obtain access, for example, to a trousers-pocket without unbuttonin g the coat; but I wish it understood that my invention is not limited to that class of garments, but is applicable to any garment access to the inside of which is desired without opening the garment.

Heretofore attempts have been made to provide means for obtaining access to the inside of mens over-coats without unbuttoning them; but in all such attempts of which I have any knowledge or information the pockets have to the inside of the garment been used with a horizontal pocket-that is, a pocket provided with a horizontal opening. The arrangement above referred to that has been attempted to be used with vertical pockets is wholly unfitted for use with horizontal pockets. an arrangement the slit and opening of the pocket are parallel and close together. In such an arrangement with horizontal pockets---that is, with the slit horizontal and the opening of the pocket horizontal the cloth of the coat would necessarily be cut through horizontally justabove the pocket, forming a horizontal opening in the cloth above the pocket. Accordingly the cloth of the coat would not furnish adequate support to the pocket, and any weight in the pocket would cause it to sag, so as to render the garment unsightly. By my improved device all of these objections are overcome. [:Iorizontal pockets can be used, together with the means for gaining ac cess to the inside of the coat, without in any way interfering with the proper support of the pocket. The devices are so arranged as to guard against strain in any direction, while at the same time the slit for obtaining access to the inside of the garment is ei'lectually concealed. The slit, moreover, can be easily reached by the hand, and any liability to mistake the slit for the pocket is guarded against.

in the drawings accompanying this specification and forming a part hereof I have shown my invention in its preferred form as shown applied to a mans overcoat, which form I will now proceed to describe.

Figure 1 represents a face or front view of a part of a mans overcoat. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 52 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. is a rear view of the parts shown in Fig. l, and Fig. i is a vertical section of a modification.

In such Referring to the form of my invention shown in the drawings, 1 represents the cloth of the overcoat.

E2 is the ordinary flap for covering the side pocket of the overcoat. The pocket is made in any usual manner. As shown it is made by an extra piece of cloth 4-, sewed to the cloth of the overcoat. The front part 3 of the pocket is formed of the cloth of the coat, and

the rear part 1 of the pocket is formed by the extra piece t. The pocket ispreferably a horizontal one that is to say, a pocket provided with a horizontal opening, as shown at 5 in Figs. 1 and 2.

6 is a lining. It may either be the regular lining of the coat, as shown in Fig. 1, or it may be a separate piece sewed to the cloth of the coat back of the pocket, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3. In this lining I provide a slit 7, which is preferably made vertical. The object of this slit is to permit access to be had to the inside of the coat without opening or unbuttoning I the coat. The slit 7 and the opening 5 of the pocket are preferably ar ranged relatively to each other, so as to permit access to be had at the same place in the coat either to the pocket or to the inside of the coat. In the form shown the pocket lies in front of the lining, the vertical slit 7 being in the lining and back of the pocket. In this position of the parts the slit is effectually concealed from view.

In my improved device as shown the cloth of the coat is not cut away from above the pocket, as would be the case where a horizontal slit is made in it above the pocket. The pocket accordingly receives the same support as the pocket receives in an ordinary coat.

The rear part 4 of the pocket is preferably sewed to the lining 6. This may be done in any suitable manner. As shown it is sewed by the line of stitching 8, preferably arranged so that the line forms a somewhat V-shaped figure, as shown in Fig. 3, the two sides of the figure converging as they approach each other at the bottom. The bottom of the figure is preferably arranged just below the lower end of slit 7. The small space thus inclosed by the line of stitching between the lining and the rear ,of the pocket acts as a guide to direct the hand to and through the slit. This does away with any liability that the wearer of the coat may mistake the opening back of the pocket leading to the slit for the pocket itself. The sewing of the rear part of the pocket to the lining has a further purpose and advantage that it furnishes through the lining an additional support to the pocket.

By means of my improved devices the wearer of the garment can obtain access to the inside of the garment without unbuttoning or opening the garment. The means of obtaining access to the inside of the coat are placed in close proximity to the pocket, so that at the same point the wearer can obtain access either to the pocket or the inside of the garment without danger of mistaking the slit for the pocket. By means of the arrangement of the slit 7 and the opening 5 of the pocket each running at substantially different angles and not parallel to each other the parts can stand strain in any direction without causing an unsightly opening to be made in the coat. The use of the vertical slit 7 enables horizontal pockets to be used without any sagging of the pockets when weight is placed in them, and the slit? is elfectuallyconcealed from view, as it is in the lining 6 back of the pocket.

Many departures from the form of devices shown in the drawings may be made Without departing from my invention. For example, it is not essential in some aspects of my invention that the opening of the pocket be horizontal, nor that the cloth of the coat form the front of the pocket, nor that the rear of the pocket and the lining be sewed together; nor is it necessary for some features of my invention that the slit 7 be vertical, although that is the preferred form, nor that the angle between the slit and the opening of the pocket be a right angle, as shown. The lining may extend throughout all of the interior of the garment, as indicated in Fig. 4, or it may be a separate piece sewed onto the cloth at the pocket, as in the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A garment provided with a slit to permit access to be had to the inside of the garment without opening the latter, and a pocket 7 in proximity to said slit provided with an opening running at a substantial angle to the line of the slit.

2. A garment having a pocket provided with a horizontal opening and a vertical slit in proximity to said pocket to permit access to be had to the inside of the garment without opening the latter.

3. The combination in a garment of a pocket, a lining and a slit in the lining, the slit and the opening of the pocket being so arranged relatively to each other as to permit access to be had at the same point to the pocket or to the inside of the garment without opening the latter.

4:. The combination in a garment of a lining therefor, a pocket lying in front of said lining and provided with a horizontal opening and sewed to said lining and deriving support from said lining, a vertical slit in the lining back of the pocket, to permit access to be had through the lining to the inside of the garment.

5. The combination in a garment of a lining therefor, a pocket lying in front of said lining and provided with a horizontal opening and sewed to said lining and deriving support from said lining, a vertical slit in the lining back of the pocket to permit access to be had through the lining to the inside of the garment, the slit and the opening of the pocket being so arranged relatively to each other as to permit access to be had at the same point to Init access to be had to the inside of the garment Without opening the latter, the slit and the opening of the pocket being so arranged relatively to each other as to permit access to be had at the same point to the pocket or to the inside of the garment, and a guide to direct the hand to the slit.

7 The combination in a garment of a lining, a vertical slit in the lining to permit access to be had through the lining to the inside of the garment, a pocket, the slit and the opening of the pocket being so arranged relatively CLARENCE KENYON, J R.

W'itnesses:

Geo. W. MILLS, Jr., EDWIN Seem. 

